tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post7807727438553689770..comments2021-07-28T05:13:56.356-07:00Comments on The Sandman is from Mars: Defeating the Non-24hr sleep-wake syndrome: Phlegyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-15572362152363996312013-06-26T21:02:45.086-07:002013-06-26T21:02:45.086-07:00Hi Anonymous,
Looking through these posts I was c...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />Looking through these posts I was concerned to read that you've been experiencing thoughts of death and suicide. Even if you have non 24, you should seek help for these symptoms as depression that bad should not go untreated. I hope that you've experienced some success with trying the stuff suggested in the blog and are feeling a lot better now. Best wishes, from a fellow sufferer. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-62932724064088143922013-04-21T23:24:48.403-07:002013-04-21T23:24:48.403-07:00thank you so much for this webpage. your advice ...thank you so much for this webpage. your advice has been life changing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-4187212181244355702013-04-13T08:36:16.654-07:002013-04-13T08:36:16.654-07:00Hi Anon,
I have been using a small red flashlight...Hi Anon,<br /><br />I have been using a small red flashlight for some years now. <br /><br />As for daytime sleep on the N24 cycle: during those years, my sleep was quite profound, even in the daytime. The problem was not that I couldn't sleep deeply: it was that I couldn't sleep deeply **when I was supposed to**.<br /><br />Update: it's been 3.5 years now since I made the transition, and my 24 hr rhythm remains extremely robust.<br /><br />-The Martian Sandman<br />Phlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-85003973328250241572013-04-10T21:37:28.093-07:002013-04-10T21:37:28.093-07:00I'm so glad it worked for you!
I can see how ...I'm so glad it worked for you!<br /><br />I can see how you will feel better adapting to a 24 hour schedule. When you sleep during the day, your sleep quality must have been poor. It doesn't take much light to shut off melatonin production. So if you need to go to the bathroom at night, use a dim red flashlight if it's too dark.<br /><br />Animals get depression when lights are on 24/7. Blind people have lower rates of breast cancer. Melatonin wise, you are better off with 24/7 darkness. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-16269606461044221942013-03-24T08:14:45.268-07:002013-03-24T08:14:45.268-07:00Thank you for this post. I believe I have non-24,...Thank you for this post. I believe I have non-24, since my sleep has always drifted during college and defied my attempts to make it regular. I just assumed that when I got a job, I'd have no choice but to make it regular and that I'd get used to it. But now I've started a promising career where I have to sleep on a 24 hour cycle, and I have been miserable for weeks! I usually feel great in the mornings when I wake, but by the time noon rolls around I feel a sort of mental fog overcome me. Then by 5 o'clock it's full-blown depression and anxiety which I've not experienced before! Maybe it's because my body wants to sleep in the day but isn't? I've been using drugs to deal with the symptoms but that's obviously no long-term solution. Just the other day the muscles in my back were sooo sore, tense, painful - whatever - that I felt like I had been lifting boxes all day even though I have a sendentary job. Extreme exaustion perhaps?<br /><br />Well I'm so glad that there's stuff I can actually try. You have no idea how miserable I've been - I've been thinking a lot about death and suicide which is not good. I'm going to try what you did and hope that it at least helps me feel better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-18792875722565322692013-02-13T06:58:27.194-08:002013-02-13T06:58:27.194-08:00It's great to hear from others with this condi...It's great to hear from others with this condition (even though it sucks for all of us trying to deal with this). I think I have had non-24 since around high school - I was tired every day, and missed a lot of days or arrived late since I wanted extra sleep. During school holidays my patterns would shift later and later, and I would have no sleep for the first day on going back to school.<br /><br />I'm now 27 and have only learnt about non-24 in the last year. I had symptoms more like DSPS most of the time, but it always took me a few hours to fall asleep and I always made an effort to get up by midday each day, despite feeling tired most days. Last year I was playing computer games all day every day and just let my patterns drift and went to bed when I was tired. Thats how my non-24 started. Initially it felt kind of nice, not being tired every day and actually feeling well-rested. But after a while it gets in the way of everything, you can't make plans or do very much at all.<br /><br />I have been trying the yellow light glasses after doing a bit of research, and they definitely made my circadian rhythms more normal - down from around 25 or 26 hour cycles to 24.2 or so. So it is still slowly shifting forward. If I was more diligent I think I could make the glasses work - by putting them on at exactly the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning. I will have to try some of the other methods listed here too.<br /><br />Good luck everyone, and if you are unsure what to do, give the yellow glasses a try, just google "low blue lights". They have been very helpful for me, I think mainly because I spend so much time on the computer before bed and have a large 32" screen - it must be putting out a lot of blue light.Shamsideenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08654553545041456689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-13664236921438900362012-12-05T20:38:27.643-08:002012-12-05T20:38:27.643-08:00Hmm, obviously I have the same problem. I remember...Hmm, obviously I have the same problem. I remember 2000 year, when I was on a holiday with my class. We were at rooms, at 3 people. All night we were making a jokes, and at one time I had asked one of my two roommates. "Do you want to sleep ?". He told me that he is taking a sleep-pills permanently. We decide to meet the sunrice. I have been like beaten all day. <br />Now I am at state that I found the best for me is to go to bed when I feel sleepy, and to take up when I am slept. Firstly I noticed this syndrome, when I were at school vacations. <br />I can't feel as good as normal people, if I live in 24 rhythm. But now when I'm a year period without a job, I found that many people complained of fatigue, but I don't. My rhythm is about 25 hours. For one month the cycle is reset. I had never imagined that there could be people with the same crazy problem.<br />My e-mail slav4o_1 "monkey A" abv.bg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-72563942007517099712012-10-21T09:36:28.781-07:002012-10-21T09:36:28.781-07:00Sadly, I can only report here about my own experie...<br />Sadly, I can only report here about my own experience, which involved a radical change that was consistently applied over a long period of time. The good news is that my rhythm has been completely retrained, so that I don't have to follow the 15 rules religiously any longer. That is, it's not a "life sentence". <br /><br />Good luck,<br /><br />- Martian Sandman<br />Phlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-3195853746215234432012-10-20T22:22:11.610-07:002012-10-20T22:22:11.610-07:00Thank you so much for writing about this problem. ...Thank you so much for writing about this problem. I feel like nobody in my life understands my problem, and this includes the many doctors I've seen (psychiatrists, general practitioners, etc - all with different diagnoses that ranged from Mono, to depression, to possible thyroid problem and so on). Many of my friends, family and even my spouse have become angry with me time and again for my erratic sleep habits which I have always felt no control over. I have flunked out of school because of it, lost jobs because of it, missed out on important social functions, and, when I have managed to be awake according to the world's schedule, I have been sick, tired, suffering from a number of mysterious ailments such as chronic idiopathic nausea/digestive problems. In fact, I did suffer with depression on a number of occasions, but I always knew that the depression was a result of the sleep disorder and not the other way around. I was depressed because I could not function in the ways that came so easily to everyone else. I could not hold a job, I could not manage my life, I was in ill health - and I never saw an end to it. I was depressed because I thought that I would be a failure at life and I just "couldn't help it." I tried every imaginable stimulant and sedative - including melatonin - to no avail. I tried to go to bed and wake up daily at the same time, but I'd just end up lying in bed awake all night and feeling like crap all day (after maybe getting an hour of sleep) and then the next night, I would still be up all night even though I'd been tired all day. I have never heard anything about blue light. In fact, I haven't tried several of these things. I don't know how I will be able to work with all the different kinds of light and whatnot, when I am married and have children. I am curious if you have any suggestions that might make this more practical for someone who is not entirely in control of their surroundings. I would have to have my own bedroom and isolate myself for several hours a night to live the way you do. My spouse likes to watch television in bed at night. Also, I can't afford 80 dollar glasses. What might you suggest as a modification or are there any? ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-21813292620991475332012-05-27T23:37:06.091-07:002012-05-27T23:37:06.091-07:00I had the same problem since I was a child. I rea...I had the same problem since I was a child. I read that this problem sometimes correlates with a vitamin B-12 deficiency. I tried talking high-quality high-potency sub-lingual vitamin B-12 supplements for a little over a month, but it didn't help - so I wrote that off.<br /><br />A few years later I started showing more overt signs of B-12 deficiency and so I started taking B-12 injections (1/day for 1 week, then 1/week for 1 month, then 1/month forever). To my surprise, I have not had any problems with my circadian rhythm since starting the B-12 injections. Sure, I still stay up late occasionally, but my clock now snaps back to normal like other people's do.<br /><br />I just wanted to let you know, in case the cause of your (or others') Non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder happens to be the same as mine!<br /><br />Hope this helps.charliearmorycomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929957985109589451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-30610784380659175082012-04-26T15:44:55.808-07:002012-04-26T15:44:55.808-07:00I really wish I found this info years ago. Shortly...I really wish I found this info years ago. Shortly after having my daughter, I realized I would have to force myself (no matter what) to be awake and productive in order to care for her. Eventually I turned to using (my own Rx) stimulants and downers to be able to keep up. Obviously, these only mask the problem for a little while. Now it seems nothing helps. After 2 yrs, I am completely drained. Lately, my memory has gotten extremely bad. Even if I sleep as long as I can once in a while, I still feel like I'm a zombie. But, sometimes in the middle of the night, I will have an hour or so where I feel normal. These times are awesome but sadly very rare. I'm missing out with my daughter, and have given up on just about everything else. I'm going to try to use as many of your rules as I can mix in. My family doesn't understand. Actually, I have never met anyone else like me. I've been this way since around middle school. This has definitely effected my life in every aspect. I'm so glad I found this site! Gives me some hope. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-62195681989047085652012-04-14T07:45:24.651-07:002012-04-14T07:45:24.651-07:00Dear Ctrli & Anonymous,
First, Ctrli: What I ...Dear Ctrli & Anonymous,<br /><br />First, Ctrli: What I can say about your first question is already written in the blog post. When I was on a long-sleeping diurnal schedule, it did eventually become easier to fall asleep by following the rules I described above. As for skipping the 2 hrs of light sleep, I found that this was highly detrimental. I, too, after making the transition, was spending 9-10 hours in bed each night. By now, after sleep restriction according to reference [6] above, I spend just 8 hrs in bed each night, and I feel great each day.<br /><br />Second, Anonymous: During the several months that it took to make the initial transition, I did not go to parties (I had just moved somewhere, and had no friends in the area, so this was not very hard). The point is, I took no chances during the transition period. By now, I can go to parties and go to bed a bit late and even sleep in a bit late once in a while with no harmful effects. When I was retraining my body's rhythm, I simply made *no* *exceptions*. <br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />- The Martian SandmanPhlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-15538597903506201432012-04-13T18:36:06.540-07:002012-04-13T18:36:06.540-07:00Hey my friend with all that good advices :-) Thank...Hey my friend with all that good advices :-) Thanks so much for posting this!!! <br />I'll keep experimenting - now with nights out!<br /><br />Do you get up the same time if you get home late from a party? <br /><br />Anyway, I think you helped me a lot, so for I had 4 good nights sleep out of 5, just started following your advices :-)<br /><br />Thanks so much<br />JonathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-77863180314478449242012-03-17T06:33:46.560-07:002012-03-17T06:33:46.560-07:00btw, I forgot to say, I have no idea if I really h...btw, I forgot to say, I have no idea if I really have one of the DSPS or Non-24 disorders but definitely something's out of whack with my cycle by default, perhaps less sensitive to the light upon waking (so that's why I needed more of it to make it stable?).ctrlinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-85816217616033406332012-03-17T06:29:29.171-07:002012-03-17T06:29:29.171-07:00hey, this blog is great! very insightful to me. I ...hey, this blog is great! very insightful to me. I would like to add my experiences and I have two questions, which I'll post at the end of this comment, I hope someone can answer them! thanks so much!<br /><br />well now, the original issue I had was that when I left school (thus no need to get up early anymore, which was good because that led to sleep deprivation!!), I noticed that over time my sleep cycle would get out of sync, it just simply wasn't totally consistent. if I managed to go to bed at 10PM, that would over a few days slowly shift to 4AM, then I would hang on to this 4 AM time the longest, up to a few weeks, then it eventually shifted to 6AM and then the shifting was again unstoppable, it would shift to 10AM within a few days. otherwise I was always a very good sleeper, falling asleep almost immediately after getting to bed, easily maintaining sleep, etc. <br /><br />anyway, at that point I would use a bastard form of chronotherapy, suffering through 2-3 days to reset the cycle. I did this because even though I had freelance work, it still bothered me that I couldn't easily get to shops, meetings with friends, etc. so I wanted to fix the whole thing!<br /><br />now this february I tried chronotherapy again, but I went to bed too late on the 2nd day of it, and got restless, couldn't fall asleep for 2 hours and then I got a second wind and wasn't even feeling sleepy anymore. I had a very annoying week afterwards, trying to reset my cycle but couldn't, I always ended up falling asleep only after 10AM in the morning or so. and even that would take 2 hours. and the sleep quality was of course crap. <br /><br />after 1 week I had enough, I got too nervous about the whole thing, I took a kind of sedating medication (not a sleeping pill) one evening and I was asleep in 5 minutes after going to bed, at 8 PM. woo hoo! I stopped taking the pill after a couple of days but I feel like it was needed to finally reset the cycle.<br /><br />since then I've been on a consistent sleep cycle. I go to bed around midnight, I do feel sleepy, yet I take a while to fall asleep, but I do eventually fall asleep, and then I get up between 9AM and 10AM. my trick seems to be that I made sure that all the window blinds are up after I get up, so all the sunlight can come in. the other part of the trick is making sure I do get up before 10AM. from those two, it seems to automatically follow that I get sleepy in the evening.<br /><br />this is great living this way finally. I can't believe it's stable now. no drifting yet at least.<br /><br />my only issue is that I often take a while to fall asleep, even though I'm definitely tired, sleepy and not even thinking about day issues after I go to bed. would this issue go away after a while of living with a stable cycle? I can also wake during sleep, which was always normal for me but sometimes I can get too awake now before drifting back to sleep. on the whole I can maintain sleep though. I do my exercises, four times a week, so it's not that. I'm annoyed at this a bit because I used to fall asleep so very quickly and easily. and due to this, I don't even know how much I actually sleep (because I purposefully don't check the clock while trying to fall asleep). I guess it is not less than 7,5-8 hours though. and not more than 9 hours.<br /><br />I have a second question too. I sleep normally for maybe 7 hours then for 1-2 hours drifting in and out of light sleep with dreams until I had enough and get up finally. I'm wondering if I'd be better off with skipping (some of) this and just get up after a minimal amount of this light dreaming? would it help with the falling asleep issue? I have not dared to experiment with this yet. I would love to know if anyone has any thoughts on this!ctrlinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-17101776347503445212012-03-02T17:59:17.046-08:002012-03-02T17:59:17.046-08:00I am someone who has had problems with a 'shif...I am someone who has had problems with a 'shifting sleep schedule' for many years. It appears as though I have managed to stop it in its tracks and this seems, above all other things, to be due to practicing the 'relaxation response' as soon as I prepare for sleep. I found this out via this blog posting!<br /><br />I suspect in my case that a dominant underlying cause was 'not switching off' at the end of the day- whether it be thoughts about work or other things. I believe that this could not only shift what time I got to sleep by large amounts, but even interfere with my quality of sleep when I got there. It appears to me that sleep patterns are not totally stable, and that it doesn't surprise me that if you subject one's sleep to frequent perturbations of the type described above, then you might find yourself locked into 'non24'. <br /><br />Just as an example: if I found myself awake at 4:30am and had to wake up at 9:00am, I would previously have been anxious about the ever decreasing amount of time that I had available to me to sleep, and even waking up frequently after initially managing to get to sleep, worried about the ticking clock. This reached its nadir when, in just such a situation, I had a prolonged nightmare about not being able to fall asleep! <br /><br />Now though, if in such a situation, I could guarantee that I'd fall asleep completely relaxed. I seldom now wake up feeling as terrible as I used to if 'forced' onto a schedule. It's difficult to emphasize enough what a fantastic thing it is to be able to consciously induce relaxation. It has done me so much good and I am extremely thankful to the author of this blog. I hope that the advice can help others who had similar troubles.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-29644290532754286192011-10-16T18:40:34.095-07:002011-10-16T18:40:34.095-07:00Great blog and great experience. Very encouraging....Great blog and great experience. Very encouraging. <br /><br />I have fought this all my life, and the result has been insomnia, headaches, chronic tiredness, and more important, a feeling that I was constantly letting family down by not being on the same schedule. Either I missed important events, or I attended them feeling like death warmed over. If I gave in to my body's timing, I feel physically better, but guilty that i am being self indulgent. If I force myself to try to follow a diurnal schedule, I feel terrible, get resentful, and eventually always fail anyway. I've gotten so excited when the sleep schedule cycled to "normal" times, thinking I would just make it a point to stay on that schedule, but within a week I was bak out of sync. <br /><br />I am going to follow your rules, several of them I already do anyway. If I have any success I will report back.Susan Sandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589508071251558063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-59179739246932481822011-06-30T07:25:15.968-07:002011-06-30T07:25:15.968-07:00thank you so much for this. I still feel a bit exc...thank you so much for this. I still feel a bit excited when I realize that I'm not the only person struggling with this. I'm going to try your suggestions, thanks again!<br />-JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-53123075904381670822011-02-06T15:18:42.629-08:002011-02-06T15:18:42.629-08:00Hi Andrew,
Wearing the amber glasses blocks out m...Hi Andrew,<br /><br />Wearing the amber glasses blocks out most of the blue light, but there is a concern about stray rays getting through at the edges. (N.B. these are glasses, not goggles.)<br /><br />Also, switching to yellow lights and then red lights (quite dark) at the same time every night I suspect has a role in retraining the circadian rhythm. These are strong cues to the body that it's time to start getting tired. That is, to some extent, there may be a conditioned response. I suspect this pattern is now very important -- perhaps as important as the change in light color.<br /><br />I don't know for sure what is completely necessary any longer, because I haven't deviated from this routine for well over 2 yrs. I plan to do some experiments, eventually, to find out to what extent my rhythm is robust with respect to perturbations.<br /><br />When I do, I'll post the results here of course.<br /><br />Good luck,<br /><br />- The Martian SandmanPhlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-51872206297419586802011-02-04T22:38:10.633-08:002011-02-04T22:38:10.633-08:00First of all, what a fantastic blog :) It's gr...First of all, what a fantastic blog :) It's great to hear of someone else's experience with this sleeping disorder. <br /><br />Are the yellow/red bulbs really necessary? Surely if you are wearing yellow glasses already then no blue light can enter your eye regardless. <br /><br />I have tried many of these techniques myself and I still suffer with a non 24hr sleeping pattern. However, I just used normal sunglasses at night to try and restrict the light intensity as much as possible. I'm going to try and pick up a pair that blocks all blue light and see how I get on.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-19833959985404748702011-01-18T01:05:37.025-08:002011-01-18T01:05:37.025-08:00amazing! i just figured out i have non-24, and a...amazing! i just figured out i have non-24, and am thrilled to find your blog. it gives me hope that i may cure myself.<br /><br />RRG NYCrebeccanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-66942246040727019852010-10-14T21:42:12.896-07:002010-10-14T21:42:12.896-07:00Dear Phlegyas,
I would like to congratulate you o...Dear Phlegyas,<br /><br />I would like to congratulate you on your success in concurring the invincible and thank you for sharing the strategy to do so with us.<br /><br />I have had this disorder for about 13 years now and my life has never been worse. Granted, it didn't stop me from becoming a doctor. But it will do so in the next couple of months when my orthopedic surgery residency starts.<br /><br />When I was in med school, I used to stay awake until all lectures are over and sleep after for 2 weeks or wake up and attend lectures after only 4-5 hours of sleep and become sleep deprived for the rest of the month.<br /><br />But I am afraid this will most definitely not work in the upcoming 6 years of residency with all the on-calls and night shifts. The same could be said about your strategy. Unfortunately, it won't work for me as sleeping and waking up at fixed times for more than 3 days is out of question as a surgical resident. But then, what kind of surgeon would operate on patients half asleep?<br /><br />Thanks again for your share. You have managed to achieve what we (doctors be it or patients suffering from this disorder) could not.<br /><br /><br />R.K.Dr. R.K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-14757328547764202062010-10-07T13:30:37.142-07:002010-10-07T13:30:37.142-07:00It's a good idea. I've never heard of blu...It's a good idea. I've never heard of blue-filtering contact lenses. That would be far less obtrusive than having to wear the amber glasses in public. (Note that I don't know if the yellow anti-bug-lights would have worked for me on their own. I use amber glasses *and* the yellow and red lights.)<br /><br />I have some hopeful news about the effects of going out now and again. I've noticed that after > 1 year of being diurnal, since I've been carefully "retraining" my body to produce melatonin at the right times, this "training" may have a certain amount of inertia. <br /><br />That is, I've noticed these perturbations (going out once in a while) do not have the same devastating effect they used to have. Nowadays, I can sometimes fall asleep on-time even though I've been exposed to blue lights until shortly before bedtime. <br /><br />This was unthinkable last year, when I was just several months into the experiment. Back then, perturbations of this kind would have ruinous consequences (and so, I avoided them *completely*). <br /><br />But I should stress that this applies to going out only every now and then. Disturbing the routine many nights in a row may cause the sleep-onset time to start drifting again. I have not run the risk of doing irreversible damage to the new rhythm. Someday, I will test its limits and report back. <br /><br />I should also stress that the *cues* in the routine may be important in my case. For example, switching over to red lights 1 hour before bedtime (overall intensity is also dimmed a lot) and taking it easy for that last hour is a powerful *cue* (or even eating at the same time each day). Going out at night may interrupt these cues and upset the conditioning, which may have long-term effects if allowed to continue several nights in a row.<br /><br />Good luck.<br /><br />- The Martian SandmanPhlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-10362506753282828892010-10-07T12:31:24.910-07:002010-10-07T12:31:24.910-07:00Thank you for sharing this. I have the same disord...Thank you for sharing this. I have the same disorder thatn you, and didn´t know about the effect of blue light on melatonin production. I have a question: What about contact lenses? Do you know if there are yellow contact lenses that can block blue light? It would be great, don´t you think? I mean, there are situations when we can´t avoid going out at night, and we can´t put yellow light bulbs everywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3579380350120574370.post-54009029870164074682010-08-02T20:36:29.075-07:002010-08-02T20:36:29.075-07:00Thank you for your comments and e-mails. I'm ...Thank you for your comments and e-mails. I'm happy to say that I have been diurnal now for well over one year without a single relapse. By this time, all those years of Non-24 are like a distant memory of living on another planet. My life has changed in many profound and positive ways. <br /><br />I wish you all the best of luck with overcoming your sleep disorders. Goodnight and pleasant dreams. <br /><br />- The Martian SandmanPhlegyashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773117759534759260noreply@blogger.com